It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.
On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.
[S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.
Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]
The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.
In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.
A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.
When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.
A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: "The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.
There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.
The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
